D211 Board Of Education Waives Student Fees For Upcoming School Year

Press release from the Township High School District 211:

July 17, 2020

The Township High School District 211 Board of Education voted to waive the $170 instructional fee and $75 per semester student parking fee for the 2020-2021 school year at its July 16, 2020 meeting. The move was directed to help families which have been financially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In June, the Board of Education requested information on the possibility of waiving fees for the upcoming school year in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report presented to the Board, District Superintendent Dr. Lisa Small noted that approximately one-third of the students within the District currently have fees waived due to qualifying for the free and reduced lunch program. The report added that a portion of those waived fees are recovered through federal Title I funding.

The report estimated that waiving the 2020-2021 school year fees would total approximately $1.6 million. It further noted that the District would offset the financial impact as it ended the 2019-2020 school year with a $4.5 million budget surplus that was largely a result of school closures and expenditure reductions during the last quarter of the 2019-2020 school year due to the pandemic. The complete report is available on the District’s website.

This press release was produced by the Township High School District 211. The views expressed here are the author’s own.